8.27.2009

Back to Work!

A signed copy of Boo's Surprise to the first person who identifies our photo locale!

My family and I just returned from a 10-day summer trip and we're right back in the thick of things on this fine Thursday afternoon.

I just mailed off several framed Dog Diaries pics for a September/October show at the Morris Graves Museum of Art, in Eureka, CA. These images will be shown in conjunction with the Humbolt County Author Festival, and I couldn't be happier about this return trip to northern California.

To top it off, I just learned that David Diaz is going to be there! I met David briefly at last winters' SCBWI NYC Conference, but was a little too shy (as usual) to really make his acquaintance. I'm totally cool when it comes to meeting kids, teachers, librarians etc., but put me in a room full of incredible authors n' illustrators and I shrink: "The agony!" To wit, since so many other fine folks are attending the Humbolt shindig as well, I promise to get out of my shell and make the most of it.

Signing off, I'll leave you with a proof of the Spring 2010 Cat Diaries cover. I've shown the cat image before, but the design is really coming together...

The drawing table awaits!

3 comments:

phil said...

pick me! pick me!

i'm gonna go with chicago's millenium park reflected in a big steel bean?

Erik Brooks said...

And we have a winnah! Nice work Phil, now point me towards the best possible international shipping address :)

Paige Keiser said...

Erik, your work here is stunning/gorgeous as usual. Congrats on your new book and continuing success! P.S. I would feel the same way too around other author/illustrators - they're probably intimidated by you as well, how about that for a catch 22? Guess we'll all never meet each other haha. :0)